I'm Claire Fallon and I'm Emma Gray and this is Love to See It, an obsessively detailed

recap podcast about reality dating shows like The Bachelor and other pop culture that makes us laugh, cry, and curse the patriarchy.

We can't live with these shows and we can't live without them, but we can break down every juicy moment and unpack all the weird messages these shows send us about love, sex, and dating.

Welcome to Love to See It in Paradise, a show about married parents of small children just finally reconnecting romantically after the rigors of childbirth.

I mean, why do we set aside four hours of our precious time every week if not to watch something essential like former reality TV stars farting on each other and saying things like not tonight babe I'm gassy.

This is like the relatability we crave in our TV we just want to watch something that's exactly like our own lives right so this week on season eight of Bachelor in Paradise it's the Jared and Ashley I show it's the jet Jared and Ashley I married couple comedy duo hour or four hours and there's just some like dating mayhem squeezed into spare moments in the episode runtime.

This is like the longest I've seen this show commit to an extended bit like at this point it went on for three episodes and which is six hours it's just a bridge too far from me it's really wild I they really took a swing on it they were like we're going all in on Jared and Ashley I talking about how they haven't had sex and well because that a baby we think people are really kind of love it.

Why are all of our aging yeah and that's exactly why we spend our time watching bachelor in paradise.

To see stuff like this so we'll get more into that later but yeah first we got a we got to start where we left off last time which is yeah he has left quite suddenly.

Yeah I do want to say that since we recorded the last episode Zachary reality did report that what he had heard is that producers basically told Teddy that she was not allowed to show interest in anyone else and we're really

pressuring her to stay with Andrew and as a result she was like I'm out I have to draw a boundary I I couldn't process this information like it doesn't seem real to me it's it could be true but if so why would they do that like they have

Brandon and serene so they have this beautiful love story anchoring the beach Teddy and Andrew are not really giving us much their first date was awkward as hell.

And the whole point of paradise is to take a solid couple like Andrew and Teddy and exploded with another great option for her like Rodney and create some some drama and maybe

another great couple of the end like maybe Rodney and Teddy would be it's only like week three like I don't understand why they can't do that and if that's just they did

the reins of control a little bit like if someone's not into each other you can't force it and that's what they did I think they've truly lost the plot and you honestly

get in how things are going it does perhaps make sense that they've just lost the plot because they're going hard on producing drama but then one naturally

occurring drama like this might be happening there just like no go away we can't have that stop it.

What I don't understand yeah I feel like this is what goes back to what we've been talking about about like seeing the

effort of production for the last couple seasons and it's like they have to learn to loosen the reins and just

just let some shit happen yeah but apparently we're not getting it this season so poor Rodney yeah has received this news

yeah we left first and you're trying to ask on a date it's not here we left off at the end of episode three last week with

Rodney being informed that he can't ask Teddy on a date because she is gone and now we commence episode four

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